thehallmark: Was on the verge of buying a tablet anyway, but now the ability to play XWing series games is a priority, I need your advice please. Can I play this game on a tablet (Samsung Galaxy A, perhaps?) or would I need a laptop? Any other tablets that work well for this? Also, consider the joystick as well - was planning to use the Logitech Extreme 3D Pro.
Thanks in advance for your help!
The Logitech stick would work fine... it's pretty much the style of joystick it was popular back in the the day, but keep in mind you will still need some keyboard commands here ane there, unless you go crazy with a profiler software with multiple "shift" states (where you can map a button to multiple action depending on the state of another button).
However, this is tied to the tablet question, remember this is a USB only device, so it may not be straightforward to connect and have recognized by an Android system... barring those control issues, the game itself should work ok on any DOSBOX distribution compatible with the tables OS